Description
This book tackles the 2014 European Parliamentary election as an event, phenomenon and process from an interdisciplinary but coherent perspective. This edited volume includes research by prestigious academics from the former communist countries in question, all of which have only recently become EU members. The contributors consider whether there is a crisis of Euroscepticism, or, for that matter, extremism of any kind in each country discussed. In doing so, the volume seeks to analyse the future of the European Union itself. It will appeal to scholars and graduate students interested in elections and voting behaviour, comparative European politics, and political communication.
Table of Contents
Tables.-Foreword; Claes de Vreese.- Introduction: âProposal of a Framework for the 2014 European Parliament Elections and Campaigns in Central and Eastern Europeâ; Silvia Branea and Ruxandra Boicu- Part I: Media Coverage and Political Marketing.- (1) Political Advertising in Polish European Parliament Election Campaign; Agnieszka StÄpiÅska.- (2) Media rhetoric and virtual communication in Bulgaria; Ivanka Mavrodieva.- (3) Intermedia Agenda-Setting during the 2014 EP Elections in Poland; Bartlomiej Lodzki and Anna Paluch.- (4) An Overshadowed Campaign in two Croatian Dailies; Gordana ViloviÄ.- (5) Perspectives on the Romanian Electoral Context and Media Coverage of Campaign Discourses; Adriana ÈtefÄnel.- (6) Coverage of the 2014 European Parliamentary Electoral Campaign in Romaniaâs Print Press (A Case Study); Ruxandra Boicu.- Part II: A Second-order Campaign?.- (7) A Second-order Campaign in Lithuania?; Ingrida UnikaitÄ-JakuntaviÄienÄ.- (8) Content emptiness, low media coverage, exhausted parties and indifferent voters: an invisible 2014 European Parliamentary election campaign in the Czech Republic; Jakub Charvat.- (9) Outline of women candidates in Romaniaâs EP elections; Silvia Branea.- Part III: European vs. National Agenda.- (10) The EU agenda as an emerging cleavage of political competition? Parties and their voters in Slovakia; Olga Gyarfasova.- (11) European and national agendas in the 2014 EP elections in Hungary; Boglárka Koller.- (12) Reflection of citizensâ agenda in the European Parliament Election in the Czech Republic; Ilona Å vihlÃková.- (13) Looking behind the scenes of the electoral panel discussion organized by the Czech independent think-tanks; KryÅ¡tof KruliÅ¡.- Part IV: Ideological premises, candidatesâ recruitment, vote results.- ctoral Strategiesl; Marzena Cichosz.- (15) Results of the European Parliament Elections in Poland; Robert Alberski(16) Patterns of Recruitment of Polish Candidates in the 2014 European Parliament Elections; Dariusz SkrzypiÅski.- (17) Election Results, candidate lists, and the framing of campaigns in the Czech Republic; Otto Eibl and Michal Pink.- (18) Czech Eurosceptic Parties in the European Parliament; Petr Just- Index.
